Tags archives: finance

GrubHub publicly filed for its IPO earlier this week, according to TechCrunch, and is planning to list as GRUB on the New York Stock Exchange.
Ladies and gentleman, the 'food bubble' has come full circle.
According to the official SEC filing, G[...]

According to DealBook, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss -- the Harvard ubermenschen with a knack for news-making, oar-breaking and lady-taking -- have launched a Bitcoin price index dubbed WinkdexSM ,with the goal of bringing price transparency to the wi[...]

Bill Keller, the former executive editor of The New York Times, announced Sunday that he will be leaving his current position as Times columnist to take the editor in chief position at The Marshall Project, a nonprofit journalism startup primarily re[...]

According to VentureBeat, Coinye -- a digital currency bearing the likeness of Kanye West -- has officially shut down, after the rapper sued the creators and all markets trading the coin.
The currency originally started out as Coinye West, featuri[...]

Last week The New York Times reported on the emergence of a small group of “Matchmaker” investment agencies, which connect businesses in need of capital to Chinese investors with excess cash.
The Times cited a prediction by private equity fund A Cap[...]

Tom Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures writes that measuring a company's revenue per employee may provide helpful benchmarks, but should not be a prime factor when optimizing a business.
Amongst Software-as-a-Service (Saas) companies, smaller and less-kn[...]

Coinbase, a Bitcoin wallet service, raised $25 million in VC funds earlier this week -- the largest Bitcoin-based investor round yet, according to VentureBeat.
Andreessen Horowitz led the round, and our ol' pal Chris Dixon -- who has previously sa[...]

Circle Internet Financial has raised a $9 million Series A funding round with participation from Jim Breyer, Accel Partners and General Catalyst Partners, according to TechCrunch.
Circle is yet another bet on virtual currency, a sort of PayPal for[...]

AngelList Syndicates launched in late September, according to PandoDaily, allowing "power angel" investors to invite other accredited investors to join venture rounds. The program provides the "power angel" with 15% of any earnings and opens the door[...]

Fantex, an app which allows celebrities and athletes to file for initial public offerings, released a beta version earlier this week, followed by a prompt retraction from the App Store, according to TechCrunch.
The hush-hush attitudes of the found[...]

Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures provides some useful charts, via CBInsights, showing the logic behind VC funding. Tech mergers and acquisitions, it turns out, are very similar to the American populace: lots of data in the low-end, a few obscene ou[...]

Jim Cramer of CNBC -- a former hedge fund manager -- suggested to U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara that Wall Streeters are using Snapchat for insider trading, according to BetaBeat. Bharara's response was less than comforting.
Cramer asked at Wednesday[...]